Nah. The generations aren't quite spaced out enough to overlap quite like that, not perfectly. I'm an X and I'm not quite old enough to have parented
most of my coworkers. So it's the generation in front of me --- maybe the oldest Xs and the youngest of the previous?

I don't think it's that cut and dry. While there is little doubt to folks being shaped by their surroundings, somewhere around late puberty and
adulthood, people become responsible for their own actions. While those influences will likely remain strong throughout life, I don't think it's a
fair argument to say that it still makes up half of how they turn out nor should they be able to point to those factors as what they became.

Bull#. I've worked since I was 17yrs. Inherited property plus a trust fund. Traded stock. Built a portfolio for my siblings children. Wrapping up
college. Major, genetic engineering. Money doesn't mean #. LITERALLY. I owe you notes, monopoly money. To # on my generation like We are all the same.
Or that the Entire time you have been living, you've yet to understand the reality. I respect my elders. I'm a hard worker. My grandfather was bootleg
errand boy, bought his own lumber yard. One of few black men in AL to own shares in iron and steel mills before the bust. My grandparents schooled me
well. Hard work. Work smart. Cash only. This system however, it's nothing more than a heist. Ever consider that we millenials don't want to play? It's
not laziness. I can't speak for all. Imagine a generation that every decade of existence was Some foreseen apocalypse. Personally, the only way to
free ourselves would be to burn the money in mass non violent protests and destroy credit cards in front of the riot policeman and then turn our backs
at peace. And no, I'm not a participant trophy hoarder lol. I've EARNED those academic and athletic trophies my mother has in her cases. I earned a
double scholarship, team captain on all team's, took care of my dying grandmother, posted my 4.0 GPA scores around her before she passed. Part time
job in the summer. Reevaluate how you see millennials. For your own wisdom. Your perspective wouldn't define me and many more in any way. But it will
continue to serve as a divisive tool.

I've been relatively rich.
I've been ass-broke and living like a primitive human before money had even been invented.
Money is just paper.
It is a form of energy transfer.
It is a form of religion.
I'm currently in the trough and lining up on a crest of wealth stability.
You have to bust ass and stop feeling sorry for yourself.
It's like surfing.

The thing is, broad brushstrokes can often times mask the more finer. I'm not upset. If anything more bummed out. This drowning out of the many
granules for sale of point politics is disingenuous. The truth is the meta and quantum in balance. Labelling millenials as lazy falls in line with
divide and conquer. Tragedy would be that the older gen are so busy telling the newer gen how we are lacking, with same metrics that are weaponized to
enslave us all. The # kicker is, that's what they want. The more neurons sacrificed chest bumping and patronizing the less are dedicated towards
ACTUAL liberation. What disturbs me the most, this ageist diatribe as a black woman resembles, who is the best slave mentality. We need to work
together. I'm only 32, I've lived long enough to watch generations I admire and respect be grifted. And this is not bragworthy. This is a call for
action. Pardon my passion. I'm upset we are being robbed!

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